EP0144310B1 - A laser-doppler-apparatus for determining the size of moving spherical particles in a fluid flow - Google Patents

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EP0144310B1
EP0144310B1 EP83901590A EP83901590A EP0144310B1 EP 0144310 B1 EP0144310 B1 EP 0144310B1 EP 83901590 A EP83901590 A EP 83901590A EP 83901590 A EP83901590 A EP 83901590A EP 0144310 B1 EP0144310 B1 EP 0144310B1
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  • the invention relates to a laser-doppler-apparatus for determining the size of moving spherical particles in a fluid flow, comprising a laser beam generator for generating two spatially separated laser beams, focusing means for focusing the laser beams so that in a focusing plane, the focused beams intersect each other under a given angle in an intersecting point in a measuring volume passed by a part of the fluid flow, photoelectric detector means for detecting the scattered radiation caused by a moving particle in the fluid flow in spatially different positions outside the measuring volume and generating electrical signals in response thereto, and signal processing means for determining the particle size on the basis of said electrical signals.
  • the measurement may take place without physical interference with the measuring medium in a small volume of space, the measuring volume, which is passed by the fluid flow or a part thereof and is defined by intersection between two incoming laser beams, on one hand, and by location within the viewing field of an optical detector, on the other hand.
  • the measurement may be performed in real time at a high data collection rate and with a possibility of getting simultaneous information about the size and velocity of moving micro elements in the fluid flow.
  • micro elements may have the form of solid particles, droplets in gases or gas bubbles in liquids, and in the following all three kinds are considered to be encompassed by the designation "particles”.
  • the methods hitherto in use for optical determination of particle size have mainly been based on measurement of the intensity of the scattered radiation from a particle passing the measuring volume.
  • the spatial function of the scattered radiation from small particles is a complicated function of the direction of the scattered radiation relative to the direction of the incoming radiation, the direction of polarization of the radiation and the size, shape and material of the particle.
  • measuring methods are known for optical article size measurement which are based on detection of different properties of so-called laser-doppler signals.
  • this principle for measurement of flow velocity is based on measurement of the difference between the doppler shifts of scattered radiation from two different laser beams intersecting each other under a given angle in the measuring volume, the two beams of scattered radiation being caused to impinge simultaneously and in overlapping relationship on the surface of a photo detector.
  • the difference frequency between- the two doppler-shifted radiation frequencies is formed, and this difference frequency is directly proportional to the velocity component of the particle normal to the bisector of the two incoming beams in the plane of the incoming beams.
  • a doppler signal In addition to the information about the velocity of a moving particle associated with the frequency, a doppler signal also comprises information about other properties of the particle, such as its size, and, therefore, different methods have also been suggested for deriving information about the size of moving particles from doppler signals.
  • a relatively simple prior art method is based on measurement of the amplitude of a low-pass-filtered doppler signal.
  • the so-called visibility method is known, which is based on utilization of the fact that the depth of modulation of the measured doppler signal will be dependent on the size of the moving particle relative to the distance between parallel interference planes in the intersection region between the incoming beams.
  • the so-called visibility factor is determined as the ratio of a high-pass-filtered to a low-pass-filtered part of the doppler signal.
  • this measuring method was limited to scattered radiation resulting mainly from diffraction in the bisector plane between the two incoming beams.
  • phase difference between radiations scattered in the forward or backward direction relative to the bisector of the two incoming beams will contain information about the radius of the spreading spherical body.
  • the results found thereby will apply only to relatively big bodies and only for scattered radiation in the forward and backward directions.
  • the phase information contains an ambiguity which reduces or completely prevents the possibility for utilizing the results found in measuring instruments for practical purposes.
  • a laser-doppler-apparatus of the kind mentioned hereinbefore is characterized in that the detector means comprise two measuring detectors and means for adjusting the detectors into spatial positions, for which in a detecting plane the beam directions from said intersecting point to the measuring detectors have an angular separation corresponding to a predetermined maximum particle size, for receiving scattered beams from the moving particle in the form of doppler signals having different phase for the two measuring detectors, said signal processing means comprising means for combining the signals from the two measuring detectors to provide a resulting phase difference signal, and means being provided for separating resulting phase difference signals caused by a phase difference between the doppler signals for the two measuring detectors exceeding 2 n.
  • Fig. 1 shows the optical parts of a laser-doppler-arrangement of the kind used in a usual laser-doppler-anemometer for measuring the flow velocity of a fluid.
  • a beam of radiation 2 from a laser 1 is separated in a beam splitter 3 into two parallel beams of radiation 4 and 5, which may have the same wave length, i.e. frequency, or be displaced in frequency in a manner known per se by means, for instance, of a Bragg-cell in the path of one beam.
  • the beams of radiation 4 and 5 will be deflected into two converging beams of radiation 7 and 8, which are focused, i.e. intersect each other, in a limited spatial region 9 constituting the measuring volume of the apparatus.
  • the arrangement is designed and positioned so that the measuring volume 9 will be located in a fluid flow including moving particles, of which only one is shown at 10, so that a part of this flow is caused to pass the measuring volume 9.
  • the incoming laser beams 7 and 8 intersecting each other will give rise to scattered radiation from a particle moving through the measuring volume 9, and in a usual anemometer arrangement, the scattered radiation in a given reflection direction 11 is detected by means of a photodetector 12 with an associated aperture 13 and detector optics including a lense 14 and a viewing field limiting member 14a, such as a pin hole.
  • the photodetector 12 is connected to the electrical signal processing means of the apparatus.
  • the measuring principle with an apparatus as shown in Fig. 1 is based on measurement of the difference between the doppler frequency shifts in the scattered rays from the moving particle caused by the two incoming laser beams 7 and 8.
  • the difference frequency between the two doppler-displaced frequencies for the scattered radiation beams is formed, and this difference frequency is directly proportional to the velocity component of the moving particle at right angles to the bisector between the two incoming beams 7 and 8 and positioned in the plane of these radiation beams, i.e. the plane of the paper in Fig. 1.
  • the present invention is based on the recognition of the fact that the doppler signal thus detected in addition to the information about the velocity of a moving particle given by the frequency of the signal also contains information about the size of the particle.
  • a photodetector in an arrangement as shown in Fig. 1 may be constituted by a photo multiplier having a square characteristic
  • the resulting photo current constituting the output signal of the detector may be expressed by where E i (t) and E 2 (t) are the optical fields for the beams of scattered radiation from a moving particle caused by one and the other of the two incoming laser beams 7 and 8 in Fig. 1.
  • This photo current will comprise a d.c.-part and an a.c.-part, of which the a.c.-part comprises the difference frequency between the frequencies f, and f 2 of the beam fields impinging on the detector, i.e.
  • the doppler frequency f D may be expressed by where u is the velocity vector for the moving particle, A the wave length of the laser radiation, and u x the component of the velocity vector u at right angles to the bisector between the laser beams 7 and 8, i.e. in the x-direction in the spatial coordinate system in Fig. 2.
  • the doppler frequency f o may be considered a result of the passage of the moving particle through a set of parallel interference planes positioned in the measuring volume defined by the crossing region between the laser beams 7 and 8 and consisting of alternate regions of light and dark.
  • the scattered radiation from a moving spherical particle is considered emanating from two points on the surface of the particle.
  • the example is descriptive for the physical relations in measurement on spherical particles in the form of droplets in air or bubbles in liquids, but may be extended in a simple way to more complicated particle shapes, if only the scattering relations are known.
  • L, and L 2 indicate the axes in the X-Z-plane for the incoming laser beams corresponding to the beams 7 and 8 in Fig. 1, which beams may be described by wave vectors k 1 and k 2 forming angles +8/2 and -6/2 with the Z-axis.
  • the scattered radiation against a detector is indicated by the wave vector k s , the direction of which is defined by the angle ⁇ in the Y-Z plane and the angle ⁇ from the Y-Z-plane to the vector k s .
  • the angle ⁇ may advantageously be chosen to about 98°, since the reflection from a bubble surface in these directions are dominating relative to the scattered radiation passing through the bubble.
  • each of the beams L 1 and L 2 will cause a scattered beam in the direction of the vector k s .
  • the angles of incidence i 1 and i 2 of the reflection points, not shown in Fig. 2, which cause scattered rays with a direction corresponding to the vector k s , i.e. the angle between the incident ray in question and the radius vector in the spherical coordinate system to the point of reflection may be expressed by where the vectors k i , k 2 and k s in the illustrated coordinate system will have the coordinates whereby the following expressions will apply for the angles i i and i 2
  • ⁇ o is the phase for a scattered ray caused by an incident ray in a plane through the center of the moving particle, i.e. the X-Z-plane in Fig. 2.
  • the doppler frequency is obtained as the difference frequency between the two scattered rays caused by incident rays having directions corresponding to the vectors k 1 and k 2 .
  • This doppler signal will have the phase
  • Fig. 3 shows a phase diagram for the phase ⁇ as a function of the adjustment angles ⁇ and ⁇ for a detector.
  • the curves in the diagram form equiphase lines for determination of the values of (p and ⁇ in spatial positions, in which the doppler signal will have the same phase.
  • the measuring detectors 17 and 18 and the reference detector 19 are positioned so that the beam directions to these detectors lie in a detecting plane comprising the line through the crossing point of the beams perpendicular to the bisector of the incoming laser beams 15 and 16, i.e. the X-axis in the coordinate system in Fig. 2, it will appear from the phase diagram in Fig.
  • phase reference signal ⁇ R is smaller than or equal to 2n/n where n is the ratio of the angular separation a between the beam directions to the measuring detectors 17 and 18 to the angular separation a/n between the beam directions to the reference detector 19 and the measuring detector cooperating therewith.
  • the signal processing means may, as shown in Fig. 4, comprise a first phase measuring device 20 which is connected to the two measuring detectors 17 and 18 for determining the phase difference between the doppler signals received by these detectors and a second phase measuring device 21 connected to the reference detector 19 and the one measuring detector 17 for determining the phase difference between the doppler signals received by these detectors.
  • the output of the second phase measuring device 21 may be connected to a validation circuit 22 for determining whether the phase reference signal ⁇ R fulfils the above mentioned condition.
  • a logic circuit 23 is connected, which only in response to an actuation signal from the validation circuit 22 when the above mentioned condition is complied with, transfers the resulting phase difference signal ⁇ M from the first phase measuring device 20 to a particle size analyzer 24 which may be designed to calculate and record for a fluid flow under examination the distribution of particle sizes below the prescribed maximum size corresponding to the given adjustment of the measuring detectors as well as the absolute concentration, for instance quantity per time unit, of particles below this maximum size.
  • any resulting phase difference signal ⁇ M for which it has been determined in the validation circuit 22 by means of the phase reference signal Cl> R that it has been caused by a phase difference exceeding 2n between the doppler signals for the measuring detectors 17 and 18 will be separated out, no matter the reason for its appearance.
  • the reason for detection of a phase difference exceeding 2rr may, above all, be scattered radiation from a particle exceeding the prescribed maximum particle size corresponding to the actual adjustment of the angular separation a between the measuring detectors 17 and 18.
  • phase difference exceeding 2n may also be caused by scattered radiation from a particle having a shape deviating essentially from the spherical form.
  • this situation will occur if a gas or liquid flow examined for spherical particles in the form of droplets and bubbles, respectively, also solid particles of varying shapes are present.
  • a further reference detector 25 may be used, which is adjusted to such a spatial position that it will receive for a spherical particle a doppler signal having the same phase as one of the measuring detectors, for example the measuring detector 17.
  • this corresponds to a location of the doppler signal for the detector 25 on the same equiphase line as the doppler signal for the detector 17.
  • phase comparison signal Cl> c The signal from the detector 25 is now supplied together with the signal from the measuring detector 17 to the third phase measuring devide 27 to produce a phase comparison signal Cl> c .
  • This phase comparison signal is supplied to a validation circuit 28, which separates phase comparison signals ⁇ having the resulting phase 0, i.e. caused by detection of spherical particles.
  • the output signals from the validation circuit 28 complying in this way with the condition ⁇ c 0 corresponding to detection of a particle of a non-spherical shape is supplied to the particle size analyzer 24 for information about the content of such solid particles in the fluid flow under examination.
  • a velocity information may be obtained in a known manner in that a doppler frequency analyzer 29, from which velocity information is supplied to the particle size analyzer 24, is connected to one of the detectors, for example the measuring detector 18.
  • Fig. 5 a possible practical embodiment of the optical parts of a laser-doppler-apparatus according to the invention is shown.
  • a laser 31 On a stable optical bench 30, there is arranged a laser 31, a beam splitter 32 and a focusing unit 33 having a focusing front lens 35, by means of which laser beams 36 and 37 are caused to intersect with each other in a measuring volume 38 in a pipe line 39 passed by the fluid flow to be examined, and the moving particles 40 carried thereby.
  • adjusting members may be associated with the beam splitter 32 in a manner known per se for controlling the separation of the parallel partial beams leaving the beam splitter.
  • a holder for two measuring detectors 41 and 42 and a reference detector 43 comprises two posts 44 and 45 displaceable on the optical bench 30, and mounting plates 46, 47 and 48 for the detectors 41, 42 and 43, respectively, said mounting plates being connected with the posts 44 and 45 in such a way as to be individually displaceable in the direction at right angles to the optical bench 30, i.e. parallel to the by-sector of the laser beams 36 and 37.
  • the actual detector is, moreover, arranged so as to be displaceable in the transverse direction at right angles to the posts 44 and 45, i.e. at right angles to the bysector of the beams 36 and 37.
  • the basic arrangement of the detectors 41 and 43 corresponds in the diagram in Fig. 4 to an arrangement of the detectors in a plane normal to the focusing plane comprising the beams 36 and 37 and intersecting the latter plane in the bisector of the beams, i.e. corresponding to the Y-Z-plane in Fig. 2.
  • the adjustment may now be performed in such a way that with the reference detector 43 maintained in the basic position on the mounting plate 48, the measuring detector 41 is displaced to one side relative to the basic position, and the measuring detector 42 to the other side relative to the basic position.
  • this adjustment will correspond to a turning of the detecting plane from the above mentioned basic position, the Y-Z-plane in Fig. 2, to an oblique position, in which the detecting plane has been turned an angle around the beam direction to the reference detector 43 relative to the basic position.
  • this turning angle may, for instance, be up to 45°, but even if the detecting plane does not thereby attain the position shown in Fig. 4, which has been used as basis for explanation of the signal processing, this does not change anything in the detecting principle, since the three detectors 41 to 43 are still adjusted to spatial positions, in which they receive doppler signals within one and the same phase band in the phase diagram in Fig. 3 for a prescribed maximum particle size.
  • the adjustment to a desired particle size variation range may be performed by a combination of longitudinal displacement of the detector holder with the posts 44 and 45 on the optical bench 30, mutual displacement of the detector mounting plates 46 and 48 relative to the posts 44 and 45 and the above mentioned displacement of the measuring detectors 41 and 42 on the mounting plates 46 and 47 for turning the detecting plane.
  • adjustment to a smaller maximum particle size is made by performing the adjustment in such a way that the angular separation of the directions of detecting rays to the measuring detectors 41 and 42 is increased, i.e. by approaching the posts 44 and 45 to the focusing unit 33, increasing the mutual separation of the mounting plates 46 to 48 and increasing the displacement of the detectors 41 and 42 on the mounting plates 46 and 47 relative to the basic position shown.
  • the apparatus embodiment shown in Fig. 5 may be supplied with a further reference detector for use in the direction of solid particles, and the signal processing circuit of the apparatus, which are not illustrated and to which the detectors are connected through a cable 49, may be embodied as explained with reference to Fig. 4.

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